INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

There are no article processing charges (APC), submission fees or page charges for this journal.

• AIM AND SCOPE
• EDITORIAL PROCESS
• REVIEW PROCESS
• ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
• TRIALS REGISTRATION
• LANGUAGE
• AUTHORSHIP
• MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
• REFERENCES
• ETHICAL STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES

AIM AND SCOPE

Advances in Rehabilitation (Adv Rehab) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles since 1987 in the fields of medical rehabilitation, physiotherapy, adapted physical activity, and occupational therapy. Topics include cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, and psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation. The journal accepts original research and review articles.
This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.

The rights to the article are usually transferred by the authors to the owner of the journal, who makes it available under the Creative Commons license. However, if the author does not want to transfer the copyright to the publisher, he/she may contact the editorial office and set separate rules - under which the editorial office may publish an article in the journal. For the detailed information, please contact with editorial office.

EDITORIAL PROCESS

Manuscripts are reviewed under the following conditions:

a) they have not been published elsewhere – both fully and in their essential parts – in print or electronic media (except in the form of an abstract or a report from a scientific meeting or a conference, copies are to be submitted together with the paper);
b) they have not been submitted to the editorial office of other journals;
c) all authors agree on the publication of the presented material;
d) information about the specific contribution that each author made to the manuscript is provided (in order to prevent the practice of “ghostwriting” and “guest authorship”);
e) all sources of financial support for publication are disclosed.

The above information is included in the statement submitted by the first author (Statement Advances in Rehabilitation.doc).

The editorial process starts after the correct version of the manuscript together with necessary attachments is submitted. Manuscripts that do not conform to the editorial rules will be returned for improvement without any content-related analysis.

As part of the editorial process, all the submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism.
Duplicate publication, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work, or another author, without providing the appropriate references. The manuscripts in which the plagiarism is detected are subject to additional individual assessment based on a professional report from iThenticate.

Once accepted for publication, the paper becomes the property of Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw. Thus, any and all copyrights – to publish and distribute the submitted material in any form known – shall be transferred to the publisher. Therefore, the paper may not be published (in whole or in part) by other publishers in Poland or abroad without the publisher’s prior consent.

REVIEW PROCESS

Each manuscript undergoes a double-blind review by two independent reviewers. Outcomes may include rejection, major revisions with re-review, conditional acceptance, or acceptance without changes. The annual reviewer list is published online.

ETHICAL CONSIDERATION

The Editor-in-Chief has the right to refuse to print the paper including the results of research during which ethical rules for clinical trials, defined in the declaration of the World Medical Association in Helsinki in 1964 and in Tokyo in 1975 (Helsinki Declaration), and in the recommendations of the World Health Organization from 1982, have not been complied with.
All experimental studies using human or animal subjects should include an explicit statement in the Material and Methods section identifying the ethics committee approval for the study.

TRIALS REGISTRATION

Advances in Rehabilitation is published in accordance with ICMJE policies and recommendations. The ICMJE requires - and recommends that all medical journal editors require - registration of clinical trials in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for article publication.
The ICMJE defines a clinical trial as any research project that prospectively assigns people or a group of people to an intervention, with or without concurrent comparison or control groups, to study the relationship between a health-related intervention and a health outcome. Health-related interventions are those used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome; examples include drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, educational programs, dietary interventions, quality improvement interventions, and process-of-care changes. Health outcomes are any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events.

The ICMJE accepts publicly accessible registration in any registry that is a primary register of the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) that includes the minimum acceptable 24-item trial registration data set or in ClinicalTrials.gov, which is a data provider to the WHO ICTRP.

In accordance with the ICMJE recommendations, the Editors of Advances in Rehabilitation require authors to provide all necessary information regarding the registered study when submitting the article for publication: name of the register, Main ID, Public Title, Date of Registration. The data provided by the author are verified by the editors.

More information on this can be found here ICMJE RECOMENDATION

Source: ICMJE, Clinical Trials, www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html

LANGUAGE

Manuscripts must be in grammatically correct English. Authors are responsible for professional editing costs if required.

AUTHORSHIP

Advances in Rehabilitation [Adv Rehab] in the matter of authorship criteria and/or who should be listed as a contributor, respects standards recommended by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). Detailed information about those criteria you can find in COPE Report publicationethics.org/authorship.

Based on these criteria, the Editors require that only a persons who participated in the creation of at least two components of the article may be a co-author of the article.
Other persons involved in the creation of the article but not meeting the criteria of a co-author may be described in accordance with the COPE guidelines.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION

All manuscripts should be submitted to Editorial Office by electronic Editorial System.

Manuscripts should adhere to the journal’s template and include:

Obligatory information that has to be provided during the submission:
- title of the paper, short title (maximum character count: 60), names, surnames and affiliations of all authors, ORCID number (facebook and twitter handlers are recommended);
- abstract built structurally, i.e. including introduction, material and methods, results and conclusions, including, in total, from 200 to 250 words;
- 3-5 key words chosen from the MeSH catalogue (Medical Subject Headings 2025). Key words should not duplicate words from the title of the paper;
- sources of financial support available to the research.

Content Requirements:
- Introduction: Background and study purpose. 
- Materials and Methods: Study methods, ethics approval, informed consent. 
- Results: Data with minimal text; no duplication of tables/figures. 
- Discussion: Critical analysis, limitations, and practical implications. 
- Conclusions: Summary of main findings. 
- References: Numbered sequentially in text; follow Vancouver format.

Figures/Tables: Limit to 6 tables and 4 figures. Insert close to text references, with bitmap images (300 dpi minimum).

Supplementary Materials: Additional data may be uploaded during submission.

Graphical abstracts

A graphical abstract (GA) is an image that appears alongside the text abstract. In addition to summarizing the content, it should represent the topic of the article in an attention-grabbing way. Moreover, it should not be exactly the same as any one figure in the paper or be a superposition of several subfigures. Note that the GA must be original and unpublished artwork.
The GA should be a high-quality illustration or diagram in any of the following formats: PNG, JPEG, or TIFF. Written text in a GA should be clear and easy to read. The minimum required size for the GA is 560 × 1100 pixels (height × width). The size should be of high quality in order to reproduce well.
You can use our templates for ORIGINAL or REVIEW study.

REFERENCES

Follow the Vancouver style. Use Medline abbreviations for journal titles. Include access dates for online sources. Authors should include the DOI number at the end of each reference. References used in the text should be numbered with Arabic numerals in superscript. 

You can use Endnote style.

Examples:

Gerards MHG, McCrum C, Mansfield A, Meijer K. Perturbation-based balance training for falls reduction among older adults: Current evidence and implications for clinical practice. Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2017;17(12):2294-303. doi: 10.1111/ggi.13082.
Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.

ETHICAL STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES

Ethical standards and procedures are available here Ethical standards and procedures